Re: 2.5.62 oops

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:42:30 -0800

Bob Johnson <livewire@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Running a stress test of 50 concurrent kernel tree cp's + md5sum the files on
> 2.5.62 results in the following:
>
> Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
> Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:1170
> Feb 17 21:53:41 livewire kernel: Pass this trace through ksymoops for
> reporting

It's not really an oops, although the bug which this is reporting could cause
a crash.

It is a known problem in the htree indexed directory code. I can reproduce
it, but haven't had time to work on it. Chris Li has time to work on it,
but cannot reproduce it.

We'll get there.

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